Holder for slicing-machines.



Ac. LVM, VAN BERKEL.

HOLDER FDH SUCSNG MACHINES.

AFPLICATIONWFILED JUNEZ, 19W- y Lm, Patented Aug. 6,.1f918..

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c. F. M VAN BERKEL. HOLDERFOR SLICING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED JUNI-227 1917.

Patented Aug. 6, i918.. 2 SHEETS-SHEIIT Z W1 iwf/SCW if@ @JM To all whom t may concer/1t:

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CORNET-JS F. M. VM'B-EEKEL, 0F LPQRTE, INDIANA, SSIGNR T0 lll'. S. SLICING MAGHEEIE Vt191/il?libl''vf, GL" LAQRTEL' ENIJLANA., A CORPORA'LIION GF INIANA.

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Patenteditng. 6, i918.

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Be it known that l, Connnnrs l". M. van

BERKEL, a subject of the Queen of the hletherlands, and a resident of Laporte, in. the county of Laporte and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful lmprovcrnents in Holders for Slicing-Machinos, of which the following isa speciication.' v

This invention relates'to a device for holding meat and similar materialwhile it is beingr sliced, and is especially adapted 'for holding suchA material during the slicing of the last portion of a given piece.

.The objects of the invention are to provide a device of the character named which shall be'of improved construction and Amore ellicient and convenient in operation than simi4 'lar devices previously known.

The invention is exemplified in the combination and arrangement of parts shownin the accompanying drawings and described lin the following specification, and it is more particularly pointed out in. the appended' claims.

In the draw1ngsv Figure 41 is a front elevation of a device embodying the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the device shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a section on line 3--3 of Fig. 1; Figs is a detail of construction; Y Fi 5, is a front eleva-tion of a slightly modi, ed form ofthe present invention;

Fig. 6 is a top plan view of Fig. 5; and Fig. 7 is a section on line 74-7 or' Fig. 5, Referring first to Figs. 1 to 4 inclusive,

rthe numeral 10 designates the,reciprocating,`

table of a slicing machine of ordinary eonstruction, and 1v1 is a sliding meat plate mounted upon the table and provided with the usual means for feeding the plate to. ward the slicing knife after the formation of each slice, the feeding means 'not beingshown in the drawings. The plate 11 has projections 12 and 13 extending 'from op posite sides oi the front edge ot-the plate, which carry respectively uprightsli and 15. A rectangular frame having end pieces 16 and 17, a bottom member 18 and a top rnemy ber 19, is held in place between the uprights I 14 and 15 by strap hooks 20. and 21 which may be' slid downwardly intoiposition over the nprights. The plates 22v and 23 are sealternating plates being inclined in opposite i cured tothe front and rear sides respectively of the bar 19 and extenddownwardly as -v in place by the plates 22, 23,' 2li and 25, the

endsof the plates 26 being positioned within the channels formed adjacent the bars 18 and 19. The plates 26am arranged with. their vertical edges 'contiguous withone another so that theykpresent a continuous sur-- face when they are all in position.

Each of the plates '26 carries a series of prongs or spikes 27 projecting from the front surfaces of the plates, the prongs of directions, as .shawn in the drawing; All of the plates which have their prongs directed downwardly are rigidly secured together by a bar 28 which extends across the back of the frame and is secured to alternate plates 26 by rivets 29. A second bar 30 connects thev remaining plates in a similar manner and thus the entire set of plates is 'divided into two groups, the plates of each group alternating with the plates of the other, and the prongs of each group being inclined in a direction opposite to the prongs 4of the plates i 'of the other group. yThe 'bar' 28 has a link 31 ivotally connected to it zit/32, and the har 30 has asimilar link 33 secured to it by a pivot 34.

A Y-shaped bracket 35 is connected to the 30 will. he moved do\'vnwardly,' and the bar Y,

28 will hc .moved upwardly, and each barv will carry with it its associated plates 26,` lthus moving all of the prongs27 in the direction oll their pointed ends. A reverse rotation of the handle 38 will of course move the prongs 27 in the opposite direction. The

which they are mounted but will have suiii vplates 2G are oi'rsuch a length that they will i' `always be retained within the channels in c 4, may he arranged in a housing 46 secured to the handle 38, and a pair of depressions 47 may be formed in the plate 23 to receive this detent to hold the handle in its eXtreme positions.

In operation, the lever 38 is first placed i in the position shown in Fig. 1, so that the prongs 27 which point downwardly are in their highest position, and those which point upwardly are in their lowest position. A surface of the material -to be sliced is then pressed against the points of these prongs and held in this position with sufiicient pres sure to permit the prongs to enter the material when they are shifted in the direction. in which they are pointed. The lever 38 is then moved to its other extreme position and during this movement the prongs 27, being inclined to the surface of the material, will -enter the material at an oblique angle and so draw the material firmly against the faces of the plates 26. Since alternate rows of prongs 27 move in opposite directions, the

material itself Will be held from shifting its position since the force exerted upon it by the prongs 27 is divided, half of the force acting in rone direction and half in the other. When. the material has been thus clamped to the holder, it will be iirmly held in place and will resist a force tendingto move it in any direction. The machine is then operated to form the projecting portion of the material into slices, the last cut being taken onl aplane just sufficiently removed from the surface of the plates 26 to avoid contact between the slicing knifeand the prongs 27 This will leavethe last slice of material 'held by the prongs 27 against the faces of the plates 26, and it is only necessary to return the handle 38 to its initial poi sition to Withdraw the prongs from this last slice, which may be disposed of and utilized in the same mannervas the other slices.

The forml of the device shown in Figs. 5,

6 and 7l`differs from that already described vin that a cover plate 50 is placed over the front surface ofthe holder and is provided with a Iseries of openings 5l through whichV .the prongs 27 project. This cover plate 50 serves as a stationary back plate against which the material is drawn by the prongs 27 during the clamping operation. The Same form of operating handle may be employed in connection with this modification as is used in the one previously described, but I have shown instead a slightly modified form ofthe lever 38 which is provided with cam slots 52 arranged to engage pins 53 which project from the bars 28 and 30. The pivotal support for thelever 38 is carried by a. bracket 54 secured to the frame by lag' screws 55. This form of operating handle permits the application of the force to the bars 28 and 30 to be made directly at their middle portions, and the use of cani slots in the place of links for operating the bars renders unnecessary the detent for holding relatively moving said sets 'of prongs inopposite parallel directions' to cause said prongs to penetrate the material to be held.

2.1A device for holding material to be sliced, comprising an upright frame, a Set of prongs carried vby said frame and arranged at a fixed oblique angle thereto, a second set of prongs carried by said frame and arrangedat a fixed oblique angle thereto and having their points inclined in a direction opposite to that of the first-mentioned set of prongs, and means for simultaneously moving said sets of prongs in opposite parallel directions to cause said prongs to enter material to be held.

A device for holding material to be sliced, comprising a frameprongs carried by said frame and inclined outwardly and downwardly therefrom, other prongs carried by said frame and inclined outwardly and upwardly therefrom, and mechanism for moving each of said sets of prongs vertically in the direction of their inclination to cause said prongs to enter material to be sliced. v r

4. In combination, a plurality of bars arranged side by side, pointed prongs carried by said bars for engaging material to be sliced, and means for shifting said bars longitudinally to canse said prongs to enter said 'y material.

5. ln combination, a plurality of bars aropposite directions to one another, and

mechanism for shifting said bars longitudinally, said mechanism being arranged to move each bar in` a direction opposite to the movement of the next adjacent bar. l

6. In combination, a frame, a plurality of bars carried by said frame and arranged si'de by side therein to form a substantiallyv continuous surface, prongs carried by said bars for engaging material to be held, the prongs of alternate bars being inclined away from said surface in one' direction while those of the alternating bars are inclined away from the surface in the opposite direction, vand means for shifting the bars in sets corresponding to the direction of the inclination Y 7. ln combination, a plate having apluralitv of o ieninfrs therein, ron s arran ed n i Y Y ,A

at an oblique to project through said plate angle tothe surface thereof, and means for shifting said 'prongs relative to said plate in a direction parallel thereto to canse said prongs to engage material to he sliced.

8. In combination, a plate having openings therein, prongs projecting through said plete and arranged at an oblique angle to the face thereof, Sonie of said prongs being inclined in one direction and others ot' said prongs being inclined iii an opposite direction relative to said snrt'ace, and means for shifting said prongs in the direct ion ot' their inclination and parallel with said plate to cause said prongs to enter material to be sliced `and to draw said material against the surface of said plate.

9. A device for holdinginaterial to be sliced, comprising a 'traine having a plurality ot' sets of oppositely inclined prongs spending portions ofthe prongs of the set,l

tliiisinoved in .a fixed plane relative to 'the prongs ot' the other set.

10. A device for holding material to be sliced, comprising a frame having one face thereof arranged to be presented to material to be sliced, a plurality of prongs arranged at an oblique angle to said face, a portion of said prongs being inclined to said face in a direction opposite to others of said prongs, and means for shifting said prongs relative to one' another in a direction parallel to said face.

ln testiniomy whereof I `have signed my naine to this specification .on this th day ot' June, A. D. 1917.

CORNELIS F. vM. VAN BERKEL. 

